Our knowledge of the role of genetics in epilepsy is rapidly expanding, and this is enhancing epilepsy diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Julie Ziobro, MD, PhD is a pediatric epileptologist and research scientist at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. She and genetic counselor, Mallory Wagner, MS, LCGC, discuss some basic principles of genetics, currently available genetic tests, examples of genetic epilepsies, and how genetic test results can impact treatment decisions and prognosis. They also explore the role of genetics in developing precision therapies for epilepsy.
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AEgIS, Freeze! Scientists slow down positronium with laser-cooling
Exciting breakthrough at CERN’s AEgIS experiment! Scientists have successfully slowed down positronium using groundbreaking laser technology.
Explore the fascinating world of positronium research. Scientists at CERN have made an incredible breakthrough by slowing down positronium using broadband lasers. %.
An Innovative Study Shows Kids Learn More on paper Than Screens. Now What?
For ‘deeper reading’ among children aged 10–12, paper trumps screens. What does it mean when schools are going digital?
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The Department of Education’s most recent study, declared in June, was surely sensational: it found that text comprehension skills of 13-year-olds had denied an average of four points since the Covid-affected schools in the academic year 2019–2020, and more alarmingly that the average drop was seven points compared with the 2012 figure. The results for the worst-performing students fell below the reading skill level recorded in 1971, when the first national study was conducted.
Astronomers used JWST to finally solve a 37-year mystery over one of the brightest cosmic explosions ever seen in modern history
Hunting for a neutron star
To discover what lies at the center of SN 1987A, astronomers needed a telescope big enough and advanced enough to detect evidence of radiation from a hidden neutron star.
Enter the James Webb Space Telescope: the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space that is already revolutionizing our understanding of the universe within its first two years of operation.
What You Can Do Now to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
Experts from Michigan Medicine answer questions about brain health and how to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Learn more about the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center at University of Michigan Health: https://alzheimers.med.umich.edu/
Chapters.
Intro: 00:00:00
Dementia vs. Alzheimer’s: 00:02:50
How does dementia differ from general memory concerns? 00:04:50.
Chemotherapy method uses patient’s own cells as trojan horse to direct cancer-killing drugs to tumors
Lung cancer is not the most common form of cancer, but it is by far among the deadliest. Despite treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, only about a quarter of all people with the disease will live more than five years after diagnosis, and lung cancer kills more than 1.8 million people worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.
To improve the odds for patients with lung cancer, researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and UT Southwestern Medical Center have pioneered a novel approach to deliver cancer-killing drugs directly into cancer cells.
“Our method uses the patient’s own cellular material as a trojan horse to transport a targeted drug payload directly to the lung cancer cells,” said Kytai T. Nguyen, lead author of a new study on the technique in the journal Bioactive Materials and the Alfred R. and Janet H. Potvin Distinguished Professor in Bioengineering at UTA.
‘We all move at speed of light through spacetime’… What does it really mean?
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We all travel through space time at speed of light. But, what does it really mean? How does it explain the consequences of special relativity — time dilation, length contraction, relativity of simultaneity, and more.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro.
01:25 A 2D analogy.
04:15 How to validate?
07:08 How Pythagorus helps.
08:40 How to piece a website (Ad)
10:15 Speed in 4D spacetime.
13:30 Why length contracts along motion.
16:30 Simultaneity \& clock desynchronisation.
18:17 Revising the Twin’s ‘paradox’
19:36 Why 3 spacial dimensions \& 1 time dimension?